It’s one thing to sound the alarm, but let’s not tell the troops that the war is lost when we need them fighting the hardest.

This is the same McConnell that ignored our calls, letters and faxes back when the bailout votes were being conducted. He eventually caved. Epic fail then, epic fail now!

derail the bill.

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Great post Sean. The current GOP are radically lacking in anything even close to what it will take to turn back and take back the country.

They have been less then weak from the start of the election. This needs to change yesterday

…to fight this bill; I won’t argue with that.

But at the end of the day, there really wasn’t anything McConnell could have done to defeat this thing. He only had 40 votes. With 41 votes he would have won.

They could have delayed it some, sure. But when Al Franken and ACORN stole Norm Coleman’s seat in Minnesota and when Arlen S.P.E.C.T.R.E. turned his coat, it was over.

And when you have whores like Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu willing to tell their constituents F-YOU in exchange for federal swag and a majority leader in Harry Reid who knows he’s deader than Elvis come the next election, ultimately this was always going to happen.

Could McConnell have built a better Alamo? Yeah. I won’t argue with that. But this was always going to be the Alamo. It’s up to us to make sure that in 11 months we have the Battle Of San Jacinto.

I don’t blame McConnell the Dems have a filibuster proof majority and were willing to do whatever it took to get this phoney “health care” bill passed.They were willing to lie, cheat,steal, bribe, extort,intimidate and ulitimately defy the will of the majority of the American people. You know the ones who actually pay taxes (unlike ACORN members and Dem elites) and fight to keep this country free. Should this bill become law Americans who oppose it need to make sure come 2010 and 2012 that the Dems learn what it means to defy the will of the people.

He just realized that the drinks were on the house and got his share.
Possibly, all the other Democrats might consider doing so as well, to the point that this free-for-all bill degrades to the point that even they cannot choke it down.
Any Democratic Senator who doesn’t rip off a chunk for his home state on this one is an idiot.

for us to start demanding a new leadership election over this. Universal healthcare is the whole ball game, folks. It always has been. It’s probably what defines and divides our two sides the most. And McConnell didn’t do jack to slow it down. If he won’t play hardball on the most important issue of our time, then he won’t ever play hardball.

It’s time to send out a clarion call for a new GOP leader.

http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/managers-amendment.pdf

I took a look at the dreadful Manager’s Amendment. What a bunch of convoluted Stalinist dictates . . . just like the main Bill itself. One can bearly make it through the first page without all brain function shutting down.

Through the fog, I was able to grin at the ripe irony of this:

“The Secretary (HHS) and the Secretary of Labor shall jointly develop and issue guidance on best practices of plain language writing.”
– page 49, lines 7-10

The Obama god gives birth to the death of America

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I can’t see the libs in the house voting for the Senate bill without a public option. A conference committee is likely to re-add the public option and weaken abortion restrictions. How does the conference bill get 60 the Senate with a public option and with weaker abortion restrictions? How does the conference bill pass the house without a public option (libs will defeat it) or with weaker abortion restrictions (moderates will defeat it)? And, right now they have 60 — maybe a dem gets snowed in or Byrd is not capable of voting. If they don’t have all 60 present and voting, they can’t get to cloture now.

The war is not yet lost – keep fighting

The time has come for us to put our actions where our words are. Our money will soon be worth nothing, it almost isn’t now. Spend it while it is worth something on every single candidate we possibly can send money to, in any state, to defeat every single one of these traitors. They do not care one bit what any of us say. This is the deathknell of freedom in America. If we continue to wait, or want an extra bauble or something, instead of getting our nation back, we are leaving for our posterity nothing but a return the the dark ages when an oligarchy rules, not caring what the public wants, where the rights of man are relegated to nothingness, we need to get Lex Rex out, by Samuel Rutherford, so we can remember and teach others what we are facing. And, remember, NO DEMOCRAT is every worth voting for again. Ben Nelson proved that to all of us today, as Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu proved a few weeks ago. They are all without a moral foundation of a free society.

gave us the fruitless indictment of Ted Stevens. Cost the GOP a Senate seat and then the charges were dropped. Well done guys. Many thanks.

Working. The legislature holds itself apart from the repercussions of thier actions. They have created a monarchy enforced by the the police, FBI, and other federal law enforcement agencies. Elections do nothing to change this. STOP WORKING!

Domestic spending will grow beyong imagination and there will be no money for national defense.

Enroll your children in Mandarin language classes so they can communicate with our conquerors in 20 years

It’s hard to argue that Republicans won’t do better at the ballot box in 2010 if this thing passes.

Did the Republican leadership decide that allowing this bill to be passed would be really good for the Republican Party?

This bill is going to get rid of a lot of red state Democrats, probably for an entire generation. I can think of 10 Senate careers this ends. And once Nelson put himself in the middle of this, and sided with Obama, what do you think the odds are Nebraska reelects Nelson?

This bill is so awful, even outside the Right vs. Left dynamic. Voters who don’t even consider themselves in either the conservative or liberal camp are going to be hostile to it. I’m amazed Democrats made the decision that they wold politically be better off giving Obama a “win” and going home and defending this vote.

I still rather would of seen the bill fail altogether, but maybe the Republican leadership wanted to give themselves a goldmine for 2010 and beyond.

Also, most of what’s in this bill will be reformed or defunded before it even goes into effect. This country is already on the brink of insolvency with a collapsing dollar at hand, so I really don’t see the expansions being funded. I also want to see them enforce making every single American buy health insurance from a private company. It’s never going to happen.

How angry are people about this pending catastrophe? I know there is almost no hope, but what if…? What if a huge crowd showed up in Washington somewhat on the spur of the moment, the week before Christmas during December. What if we flooded the street with protest. I know they haven’t listened before, but what do we have to loose? We are on the verge of loosing anyway. Yes, we had the organized protest before, but that was while the outcome was still in doubt. If we really think this law will hurt America, shouldn’t we back up our words with action.

If true conservatives outnumbered progressives we wouldn’t be here in the first place. I think this proves the statistical counter argument. Unprincipled falls under the category of progressive in my book. Nelson wasn’t a true conservative.

http://healthcare.nrsc.org/action-center/?tr=y&auid=5730304

contact these Dems Senators right now

If anyone trusts Harry Reid and his fellow libs to compromise on the issue of public option they are the same dunces that believed Barack Obama was a moderate. It will be in there. As well as abortion and government medical care rationing.

Did the Blue Dogs cave. Or did McConnell fail. Its tough to reconcile both. If Dems are going to vote Dem, nothing McConnell did would make a difference.

The D’s always over-reach when they are in power….and these so called “moderate Dem’s” will pay the price.

This had nothing to do with tweaking the health care bill and everything to do with Nelson jockeying for a piece of Obama’s slush fund for Nebraska…and securing his pension for after he loses his job. This guy knows that once this is all said and done, abortion will be funded with bells on.

All I want for Christmas is the opportunity to slap a democrat.

Its quite accurate that McConnell had only 40 Republicans to work with, which on the surface made his task seem quite difficult. However, he also had about 60 percent of the country behind his position, which would seem to make his task much easier. Then again, if members of the Senate are willing to sacrifice their careers over a single vote, what can you do? Then again, we don’t know that they’re really thinking that way, for all we know the Dems are really thinking ‘We arent sacrificing ourselves, look at that incompetent GOP leadership over there, we’ll find some way to beat them yet despite the bad poll numbers right now’. We can speculate all day as to whether McConnell could’ve won, or even if he WANTED to win this fight, maybe he wanted the Dems to pass this bill because it increases his chance of becoming Majority Leader again, who knows. The only thing we do know for sure, if they end up passing this disaster, is that McConnell lost. Again. You can say how tough it was to win all day long, but the fact remains that the guy is a consistent loser, and this is his biggest loss yet. Its time to stop rewarding failure, and time instead to find some leaders who are capable of stepping up and winning one that they aren’t ‘supposed’ to win sometimes. At this point in seems the only leadership left that is competent enough to even have a chance of stopping this bill, is Stupak himself, a Democrat. I think that pretty much says it all.

5 days is still a lot of time. Other Senators are seeing a gravy train being built and will want to get into the action. Why vote on a potentially career ending bill and not bring home the big one. The other 58 Dem’s must be saying to themselves “I’m risking my neck and all I get is a ‘I’m a Party Loyalist’ T-Shirt.” Right now I am putting my faith in Dems’ fecklessness to break this bill.

It is beyond me why 59 Senators ar allowing Nelson from Nebraska get away with making all the other states pay their medical bills. They are all betraying their constituents with this joke of a bill. Maybe one of the women Senators will get some guts and do the rite thing. Maybe the one from Arkansas.

There are a few good results to this healthcare debacle. First and foremost, it has exposed the Democrats for what they are, a bunch of thieves and extortionists. It has also slowed down the socialist agenda of this government. They had planned on cramming all their legislative schemes in this year in order to have a time cushion before the next election. They have been ground down trying to squeak this monstrosity and the other devils are going to really cost them dearly. This has also demonstrated to the people of this nation just how corrupt and craven these people are. No one watching this fiasco is looking at Congress and the president and saying, ‘look at how open and honest this process is.’ Everyone is staring at the train wreck with mouth agape and vowing to fix it with better people.
The world is agog at their duplicity.
Even avowed liberal Democrats are ashamed of their leaders. They visibly redden and audibly groan when the subject rises concerning the healthcare takeover. They shake their heads in embarassment, as well they should.
We must take what good comes from even the worst events. It can only make us stronger.

McConnell wasn’t elected Minority leader until after the 2006 election with the new congress in 2007 when the count was 49-51. Frist was Majority leader during the election which the Republicans went from 55 to 49 seats; McConnell was whip.